Rosina (Bruger/Brugger) Ruefley Halley (1849-1916)18

BRUGER, BRUGGER, RUEFLEY, HALLEY, DUDLEY, FOREST

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 3/14/2022 at 19:07:47

From Nevada Representative March 21, 1916 (page 1)

OBITUARY

MRS. ROSINA HALLEY

Mrs. Rosina Halley, long a much esteemed and respected resident of Nevada died on Friday last at the home of daughter, Mrs. Ashley Forest at Bend, Oregon, and her funeral was conducted this forenoon from the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Drybread by her son=in-law, Rev. H. P. Dudley of Des Moines. The deceased was best known in Nevada as Mrs. Wilson Halley, and her home was for a generation on the corner diagonally southwest from the school house. Some thirteen years ago years ago she has had her home with her daughters, never returning here since her removal until her two children from the west brought her body back and the third met her here.

Mrs. Halley was a native of Switzerland, where she was born, Rosina Brugger in 1849. She there grew up and was betrothed to Emil Ruefley, who preceded her to America and found a home in Nevada. A year or so later she followed him, and they were married at Boone in 1868. A little more than two years later, on July 19, 1870 he was accidentally shot and killed while out hunting, and she was left with two small children, Bertha and Will, to fight her battle with the world. Later she married Wilson Halley and third child, Bernice, was born. All three of those children survive her, the son Will and the daughter Bernice, now Mrs. Forest, living in Oregon, and the older daughter, Bertha, now Mrs. H. P. Dudley, residing in Des Moines. Her death occurred March 17, 1916, at an age of about 67 years. The cause was an attack a week before and from which she at no time offered hope of recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Forest and Mr. Will Ruefley arrived with the boy early this morning and found Mrs. Dudley here to meet them. Mrs. Dudley has long been a special friend of Mrs. Drybread, and hence the holding of the funeral at the Drybread home. Mrs. Halley was a woman of much worth in every way, and her death is a blow to her children and a grief to many friends of long standing.